Promote the ASSERT(), which is quite dead code in KVM, into a KVM_BUG_ON() for KVM's sanity check that CR4.PAE=1 if the vCPU is in long mode when performing a walk of guest page tables. The sanity is quite cheap since neither EFER nor CR4.PAE requires a VMREAD, especially relative to the cost of walking the guest page tables. More importantly, the sanity check would have prevented the true badness fixed by commit 112e66017bff ("KVM: nVMX: add missing consistency checks for CR0 and CR4"). The missed consistency check resulted in some versions of KVM corrupting the on-stack guest_walker structure due to KVM thinking there are 4/5 levels of page tables, but wiring up the MMU hooks to point at the paging32 implementation, which only allocates space for two levels of page tables in "struct guest_walker32". Queue a page fault for injection if the assertion fails, as the sole caller, FNAME(gva_to_gpa), assumes that walker.fault contains sane info on a walk failure, i.e. avoid making the situation worse between the time the assertion fails and when KVM kicks the vCPU out to userspace (because the VM is bugged). Move the check below the initialization of "pte_access" so that the aforementioned to-be-injected page fault doesn't consume uninitialized stack data. The information _shouldn't_ reach the guest or userspace, but there's zero downside to being paranoid in this case. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h index a3fc7c1a7f8d..f297e9311dcd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h @@ -338,7 +338,6 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker, } #endif walker->max_level = walker->level; - ASSERT(!(is_long_mode(vcpu) && !is_pae(vcpu))); /* * FIXME: on Intel processors, loads of the PDPTE registers for PAE paging @@ -348,6 +347,10 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker, nested_access = (have_ad ? PFERR_WRITE_MASK : 0) | PFERR_USER_MASK; pte_access = ~0; + + if (KVM_BUG_ON(is_long_mode(vcpu) && !is_pae(vcpu), vcpu->kvm)) + goto error; + ++walker->level; do { -- 2.40.1.606.ga4b1b128d6-goog